The aim of the paper is to examine the effects on employment of the large-scale structural adjustment programme undertaken by Turkey from the early 1980s onwards. In this respect, we particularly analyse how appropriate the choices of factor intensity after structural adjustment programme have...

En general, las diferentes teorias que se han planteado para explicar la inversion se basan en problemas de optimizacion dinamica cuyas soluciones cuentan con diferentes metodos. En dichos modelos, los valores optimos de las variables de control y de estado, etiquetadas como inversion y capital...

Este trabajo emplea un modelo dinamico de inversion derivado de maximizar el valor presente del flujo de efectivo intertemporal de una empresa representativa sujeta a imperfecciones de mercado, restricciones de prestamos de capital, y ajustes de costos de capital. El modelo es usado para probar...

Despite the drastic switch to market-based policies and outward orientation in Turkey during the 1980s, private investment in manufacturing industry has still not revived after seventeen years of structural adjustment. This paper examines the main determinants of private investment in the...

During the 1980s, the majority of developing countries experienced serious macroeconomic shocks, leading them to adopt stabilisation and structural adjustment programs. Following the public debate on the harmful effects of these programs, numerous studies on poverty have been undertaken in the...

The paper applies a quantitative methodology to study poverty and livelihood profiles on the basis of a large set of variables. It takes the context of post-conflict rural Rwanda for a case study. By means of exploratory tools (i.e. principal component and cluster analysis), it combines...